Ace is having a haiku contest. Check it out, enter the contest, or read my entry.

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Check it out HERE. A hearty bonjour to my French reader (singular), whoever you are.

(I'm betting it's John Kerry and that he needs to read in his native tongue)

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(As imagined by the Commissar)


"and then there is the lavish praise and appreciation for everything and anything new and different. new shoes? pop those suckers on with a little skirt and go prancing up and down each staircase and each hallway and watch the heads turn and occasionally roll. "cute shoes!" "oooh my gosh those are adorable!!!" "I LOVE YOUR SHOOOOES!!!!!! WHEREDIDYOUGETTHEMMMMM???" anytime you're testing an outfit, unsure of a purchase, sporting a new hairstyle, or simply in need of a little admiring, the Fleet Center is a sure place to get it. just wrap yourself in the warm, snuggly blanket of Party love and/or jealousy."

For more guest blogging action, see the Commie's post. Very funny!

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Now which one did Falwell say was gay? Allah has the answer.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention Bigfoot.

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One of the little known facts to bloggers who install Site Meter or extreme Tracking is that unless you set your 'privacy level' to medium or high, your site stats become public.

Of course, among the public site stats are recent Google searches.

So, where are the top bloggers getting all that traffic from and how can I get some of that action? Here are some actual searches I found on each of these blogs Site Meter stats page.

Glenn Reynolds "instapundit.com" [Wouldn't it be just as easy to type it into the address field?]

Kos "can kerry win texas?" [Yes, if Kos has anything to do with it!]

Atrios "Atrios" [actually, a Google Image search, which is....disturbing]

Andrew Sullivan "Now, I could have said something very profound today, but you would have forgo" [More like you thought you said something very profound today, but you didn't, and I forgot anyway]

Volokh " '16 year old' + fraud + ebay + newspapers" [What the....]

Small Victory "porn pinball" [Funny, I don't remember that game]

Washington Monthly "political animal" [Yes, you are]

Frank J "i hate michael moore" [me too]

Citizen Smash "Iraq Sarin gas rockets july 2004" [Oh yeah, what ever happened to those WMD?]

Wonkette "jockstrap" & "wonkette anal" [no comment]

Misha "rottweiler puppy weight chart " [note: adopt animal as blog mascot]

OTB "paige davis stripping" & "kerry daughter dress" & "britney spears" & "men who like to pee outside" [Your sick James....just sick]

Talk Left "12 years old sex" [What was that about the politics of crime?]

My Pet Jawa "sudanese woman pics" [blushing]

Update: Llama Butchers "guns nude blondestar"

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I'm not joking. I wish I were.

All blogs with a blogspot.com extension were blocked for awhile (and stll might be) and ALL mu.nu extensions are still being blocked. A friend in Korea tried to look at this site earlier today, he couldn't do it.

This is REAL censorship. You know, where the government blocks content. This isn't what lefties call censorship. You know where you don't buy their art or you say that their music sucks.

If you haven't been following the controversy, Big Hominid has the scoop. He's also featured (although they spell his name wrong...imagine that?) in this Newsweek piece, which has some background info (scroll down to Internet: A Blog Blanket).

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I feel nothing. Not interest. Not boredom. Not even contempt. Nothing.

I want to feel something. I want to get pissed off. I want to care what Jimmy Carter looks like up close and personal.

Is irony an emotion? I want to feel that, but I don't.

I wish I could find some perverse hillarity in it all. Nothing about this is funny. At the same time, it's not un-funny either.

Forget doing parodies. There is nothing to make fun of. Nothing worthwhile is being said. It's worse than that, there is nothing un-worthwhile being said either. The convention is not happening to me. It is not there and no one is writing about it.

I feel nothing.

I don't even care who's blogging whom at the convention.

I thought I felt something for a second when I read this from N.Z. Bear, but I can't be sure. I should be interested in bloggers who blog from the DNC, but I'm not. Is 'yeah, what he said' a valid emotion?

I definitely felt something when I read Simon's post on the DNC blogging thing. But that was more like solidarity, which I guess counts for something. Maybe.

But on the whole, I feel nothing.

Intellectually, this disturbs me and I know I ought to feel guilty for not giving a rat's ass because one ought to care about such lofty things as democracy and all that jazz. But I don't even feel guilty for that.

I feel nothing. I am an emotional nihilist when it comes to the DNC.

UPDATE: Vindication! Now that is an emotion I am feeling. I knew I wasn't the outlier here. So how come everyone in the blogosphere continues to act as if this is an interesting story or that people actually care?

From Drudge:"THE BIG YAWN: NETWORKS IN RATINGS FREEFALL AT CONVENTION, OPENING NIGHT ALL-TIME LOW"

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Come in for the name, stay for the hate! (found via Cranky Neocon)

Hatemonger's Quarterly more...

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This DNC thing doesn't interest me in the least. Seriously. No emotion, not even boredom. So, how else to blog away the blog days of summer than to write about my new pet peeve: blogophobes and the blog marriage debate.

Why shouldn't two bloggers get married if they wish?

And what business is it of yours what they blog in the privacy of their own domain?
more...

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1 Uh, hey, I'm no blogophobe, bubba. Whatever them bloggers want to do in the privacy of their computer rooms is their own business. But as soon as them webcams go on-line, them bloggers is invadin' my right to use the Internet without bumping into jpegs containing images that God Himself would have a hard time burnin' out of the ol' frontal lobes. Think about the children, is all this ol' boy is sayin'. Think about the children, or I'll be havin' to kick somebody's ass, if'n ya know what I mean. This cornpone monologue was brought to you by the good people at IJGBFLAIBTDADWTELITDOTGPOWTSAFIFMLE

Posted by: ccwbass at July 26, 2004 09:22 PM (qg4dU)

2 You are one weird son-of-a-bitch...

Posted by: Mudfish Billie at July 27, 2004 01:17 AM (uvu7I)

3 I've never denied it.

Posted by: ccwbass at July 27, 2004 04:05 AM (dYbjN)

4 I think your apparent blogophobia is just masking a deep rooted blogophelia.

Posted by: Jane at July 27, 2004 05:11 AM (PcgQk)

5 You had me at "not even boredom". Then you lost me again. But you picked me up in a sleazy dark chatroom with bad disco music and a tempting offer of no strings attached. And in the end I'm not quite sure what we're all talking about anymore but I think I love you.

Posted by: Simon at July 27, 2004 10:37 AM (UKqGy)

6 I started with the word 'blogophobe' (patent!) and the piece just wrote itself. Which is always kind of the wrong way to write anything. You know, it's supposed to work the other way around.

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at July 27, 2004 02:14 PM (JQjhA)

7 We're HERE and we're Bleer! Get used to it! You have nothing to lose but your laptop. What Mudfish-billie said: You are one weird son-of-a-bitch... And coming from me, that should worry you. *snicker*

Posted by: Ironbear at July 30, 2004 06:36 AM (cswDs)

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Jeff Quinton is having a contest and asked me to join in. Let's just say he made an offer I couldn't refuse.

Here is my entry (with apologies to Jeff Goldstein).

The Bergergate haiku:

Berger springs them
in autumn socks and winter pants
while ketchup waffles

It aint so
krispy kreme doughnuts leave no room
in pants--Josh Marshall

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Hey all, welcome to my new digs!

I know I've been promising to make the move for over a month now, but as you can tell, I've had other things on my mind.

The reason that this is a beta version is that I'm still tweaking the layout. Expect many changes in the following days. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

I need to make a few shout-outs here.

First, thanks to BRD for first taking up my dream of doing nothing and then to Simon for ruthlessly promoting my cause to the Emperor of the mu.nuniverse, Pixy. It took awhile, but here I am! Thanks.

Second, props to my referrers. There was once a time when I could actually list ALL of my referrers. This is no longer the case. But those of you involved in the time honored tradition of link whoring, thanks.

Third, thanks to my frequent commenters. Honestly, even as the sitemeter continues to climb, it wouldn't be worth it without some feedback from readers. MB², ccwbass, Jane, Simon, Brian B., Senator Phil A. Buster, Publius, Gordon, er, and the rest--Thanks.

Fourth, big thanks to my buddy Muddy for all the encouragement over the past few months. Now publish something!!

Last, I would be remiss if I didn't send a big Spacebo Bolshoi to the Commissar. When this site was still testing it's 1.2 beta version, the Commissar always gave me encouragement. In fact, back when the sitemeter hovered around 30, nearly all my hits came from him. Not sure how the whole 'blogfather' thing works, but if there is a Don in my circle of blog-buddies, then the Commissar is it.

So, thanks to everyone. Sorry for leaving so many links un-dropped. We'll try to fix that in the coming months. I promise--and take this as a pledge--a relentless campaign to drop your links. It will be the link-drop campaign to end all link-drop campaigns. A link-dropping campaign so large, so bold, so ingenious, that future generations of bloggers will recall the days of 'ot four' with reverence. Yes, my friends, prepare yourselves.

Let the link-dropping begin!

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